Odd Containment Specialist.

Chapter 868 No Gains
Xia Shou continued to peruse the notes, but a large portion of the information overlapped with the currently known information.

It is evident that Lin Rizhi wrote these notes largely for the future Bureau of Control, so he recorded a great deal about local customs and various historical events, which took up a large portion of the notes.

If they knew nothing about the Scar Age, these would certainly be invaluable materials, but now that they know about the Scar Age, and the current King of the Rift also knows that this is a cyclical history, most of the information in the notes has become useless.

After all, their past has been exposed, so there's no need for them to bother integrating into this era anymore.

Aside from these, Lin Rizhe also recorded a lot about the members of the Control Bureau who had traveled to this era, as well as about his adopted son Zhang Heping. Finally, what Xia Shou cared about most was about the adoptive mother of the first generation of the Rift King.

Unfortunately, there is very little valuable information about An, the foster mother of the first king.

Actually, saying "few" is not accurate, because there are many records about this woman in the royal documents. However, these records do not describe the purpose of the woman's adoption of Solard, nor do they contain any personal information about the woman.

All the writings about her are related to Solad, as if she had no personal relationships or life other than being Solad's adoptive mother.

In those documents, Anne also subjected Solard to a series of harsh training programs, but she still did not explain the purpose of these programs.

Even the old man who gives away the secret manual in martial arts novels will give some motivation when he adopts the protagonist. Perhaps he wants to pass on his mantle, perhaps he wants to train his disciple to take revenge on his enemies, or perhaps he simply wants to train a great hero.

However, in Solard's memoir, Anne's training of him was merely training; she didn't seem to make him do anything, nor did she explain the purpose of the training. Later generations could only speculate that this foster mother simply wanted to raise her adopted son.

As for what she wanted to do with this adopted son, nobody knows.

As for Xia Shou, the excerpts that Lin Rize had transcribed all seemed like Alice, but not quite.

In Solard's memoir, Alice's gentleness is superficial; you can't say she isn't gentle, because she truly is very gentle, especially when Solard tries to do what she "wishes."

But you can't call her gentle, because once Solard has his own ideas, she will leave without hesitation, like a cold-blooded mother who can casually throw her own son next to a trash can.

Well... the general impression that An in the memoir gave Xia Shou was: I have to raise a child who meets my expectations; if he doesn't, then even if I raise him, he has nothing to do with me.

The only character that can be 100% associated with Anne is the maid. Although the memoirs do not mention Anne as a maid, many of the things she does are things that maids would do.

"Is that all?"

If even the royal family of this era has only preserved these few records about An, then it is extremely disappointing. Xia Shou's purpose for this trip has been completely thwarted.

This made him wonder if this unexpected historical fall was really related to him.
Could it be that this historical event simply happened to fall into a period of time in which Alice once lived?

From another perspective, this coincidence is quite reasonable, since Alice has always been active. She has lived from a very long time ago to the present day; she was a maid in the British royal family, and she was also a maid in the time of King Arthur. So it doesn't seem surprising that she had contact with the King of the Scars era.

Doesn't Alice also appear in the painting "The Judgment of King Arthur" in the British royal collection?
Thinking about it this way, Xia Shou realized that he might indeed be being overly sensitive.

At this moment, Xia Shou suddenly remembered what No. 58 had said, and a bold conjecture suddenly arose in his mind.

Could it be... that Alice is training Solard to become the new owner of Merlin's House?
So Alice had always stayed with the British royal family, which also meant that the royal family had always been tasked with balancing Merlin's House.
Before Xia Shou could think things through, a commotion broke out nearby.

"It's completely useless. We already know most of what's written inside. Sparrow... Sparrow! Where are the Sparrows?"

"Let's drink in the back. There's a rum cellar on the island," the sailor said, shaking the bottle he had just brought.

"Damn it! Let us read here while you go drink!" The mustachioed man, who was engrossed in his book, slammed his notebook down and stormed off into the grove. The old crew member, who had been slacking off for a while, burst into laughter.

Even Xia Shou couldn't help but ask, "You can't even steal that stone, don't you feel any urgency at all?"

"My experience is, don't take it too seriously," said an old sailor with yellowed teeth.

Before long, the mustache's voice returned from afar, and then Sparrow was seen carrying a bottle of wine, swaying as he followed, looking quite confident.

Then, he walked up to the crowd, made a delicate gesture with his fingers, and said, "I know a place where time passes much faster than in the present world. Let's go there, wait for this era to reset, and then steal it again."

"Oh, you can do that too!" Hu Ling's eyes lit up.

Indeed, since Sprite already knows the truth about the time loop, forcibly stealing it is no longer possible. So waiting for history to reset is a particularly clever strategy. After all, once it resets, those who originally knew the truth will no longer know, and even the stone will return to its original position, making it easier to steal.

However, this plan is not without its flaws. Although the success rate of waiting for a restart is high, during the reset period, it is equivalent to completely giving up the initiative. If the Rift King really starts a counterattack against the modern world in such a short time, or even succeeds, then this plan is equivalent to prematurely aborting.

Although Xia Shou also felt that Sprite's chances of winning a historical war were extremely low given such an exaggerated flow of time, Xia Shou always felt that things were not that simple.

Such an obvious disadvantage is obvious even to a fool, so it's impossible for Sprite and the others not to see it, especially since in later historical records, the Grand Tutor Adel, who assisted the King of Rift in this generation, was a true genius, and was top-notch in politics, secret arts, and governance.

Xia Shou did not believe they would wage a war they could not win.

Moreover, Sparrow can ignore these risks, but the Control Bureau cannot.

(End of this chapter)